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Thanks for that Nursery site link on screening - looking at it now, lots of good stuff!

Thanks all...:D will follow up with more research on your suggestions - must admit upfront - I'm not a big cypress/pine or pittosporum fan - just something about the look of them...

Paulonia -...

Hi Ivan,
Clumping bamboo is something i'm intersted in to screen it...how high does it get and does it look like traditional bamboo?
Cheers Corinne

Thanks Bob,
Do you really think bushy stuff will grow that high? We do have cyprus in australia and i will check out local equivalents today.

Good point about where people face. I was thinking...

Hi all,
I'm planning to transform my weeds into a fabulous garden..have measured it up and put to scale on grid paper.

The house is a neutral 50's weatherboard with a modern open living/kitchen...

Well, things have progressed on this thread since I last checked! durwood, he did get sealer - Wattyl once again (sealer/undercoat) - thanks cyco and dave_scuba. Matt has sanded all the plastering...

After all that we ended up with Wattyl ID. Hubby went to the best shop he could find and polled all the staff for their opinions. Apparently Wattyl ID and Dulux 101 Advanced have the best...

Thanks everyone, good advice, we will definitely go for 1 undercoat and two top coats with a light sand in between (seems to be the done thing). I was looking at the Haymes website last night and it...

We have just finished building an extension and fairly major renovation, now it's time to paint the interior (yuck!) which my hubby is going to do. I haven't been able to find really good...

Thanks Dusty, I think we're going to have to learn to live with it, rest of the job is, as you say, superb, no sanding marks anywhere and mirror finish. I guess if we want perfection we'll replace...

Funny you should say that - my husband and I were talking about that today. Surely there is something that experienced floor polishing people know of that can be used to "bleach" stains? I suppose...

Having another think about it I'm sure that it's under where the sink used to be. I guess the question then is do you think the marks could be sanded out or is the staining likely to be quite deep?

We weren't here for the application of varnish so didn't see what it looked like after polish only..before we left it just all looked old and unpolished - there had been lino with tiles glued to the...

Thanks ozwinner - have added a selection!

Hi all, bit of a drama and don't know what to do about it..had the floors in lounge and kitchen polished professionally after doing a pretty rough job ourselves in the bedrooms.

Came home after...

thanks guys, that confirms my thinking

Hate to admit this, but apart from the initial reference (ie. our friend for one builder and the surveyor for the other), I haven't seen the work of either,...

Thanks all for your wealth of feedback - we did get quotes to 'fix' as hubby was over it at this point...bout$500-600 - decided we can live with it, by the time rugs are down and furniture is in...

Hi All,
Now less than one week to baby and we are still deciding on builders for our bathroom/kitchen extension -renovation.(originally planned to have the job finished by now!)

Anyway, I'm after...

thanks Silent - just yelled this out to Matt in the other room - he's taken the afternoon off work to move things along - and he said 'great, will use plasterboard offcuts, and will mark where the...

Hi all,

My hubby, Matt, has replastered two rooms in our new old 50's weatherboard and removed the skirting in the process.

We've bought nice, clean MDF to replace the old stuff which had 20...

Hi all,

My husband and I are doing last minute reno's to a 50's weatherboard house we bought three months ago, the rush is driven by first baby now due in 4 weeks.

And the rush is causing us to...

Hi Ian and Silentc,

Just back after not being on the site for a few days to see your comments - interesting that a version of this is exactly what has been going on - ie Matt now has pulled off...

Actually, I have come to terms with that the kitchen/bathroom reno won't be finished for our little girl; as we're only getting quotes now - hopefully it will be started though, and finished by...

Rod thanks for the extra detail..intention was to keep doors but get rid of ugly thick, undetailed frames...

Having said that, Ian, you've hit the nail on the head (:)) re the style issue.

The...

Bleedin and silent: Thank-you both heaps for going to so much trouble to help. We'll check out the damage under the architraves, and then decide whether to go the shadow line or just finer frame.
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Thanks bleedin - what is a shadow line...or is that what the catelogue will tell me?

Also, any idea on where to buy the screed in melbourne (for inside the bedroom walls, where the plaster falls...

thx bleedin thumb - definitely a biological drive, and unfortunately left a bit late in this case - although now that I've finished work can at least do the research and buy the materials for hubby...

Hi C,
Yes, would paint the jams the same colour.

Yes, was planning to use the metal corner stripping used with gyprock external corners...sounds like we might have to see what's under there and...

Hi, I'm expecting baby in 6 weeks and my husband and I are trying to do as much work on our 'new' old weatherboard in melbourne as possible before then.

Two questions:
1. Where can i buy a screed...